What era has the best production??

[The Devil's Advocate]

Listening to some old Junior Mafia (White Chalk) after writing to this Pound Cake instrumental... it's like night and day.. even the "trap" music of today isn't that hard hitting, but still melodic production like No Limit and Cash Money back in the late 90s


so simply... which era had it the best? and yes we realize that sampling laws really give the 90s and 80s an edge...

 

[iliketurtles]

2000s best production and best era Oat

 

[Music Fiend]

Early 2000s when the neptunes had their run. I believe production was the best when their was live instruments without all the 808s being in the forefront. That being said present day production isn't bad at all, but everything sounds like u may have heard it before

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

lets post examples... this is what started this for me... was listening to this thinking, it's been forever i heard some deep dark shyt like this... with the mix on the hook

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

when it just hard drums and nasty pianos



those death row samples



the classical music samples



the rza

 

[Big Mel]

early to mid 90's.

 

[Danie84]

Hands Down, Early-to-Mid 90s

 

[doublenegative]

Hands Down, Early-to-Mid 90s

 

[The Ruler 09]

Early to mid 90's probably for me too.

 

[Luken]

Listening to some old Junior Mafia (White Chalk) after writing to this Pound Cake instrumental... it's like night and day.. even the "trap" music of today isn't that hard hitting, but still melodic production like No Limit and Cash Money back in the late 90s


so simply... which era had it the best? and yes we realize that sampling laws really give the 90s and 80s an edge...

i was gonna say, the music of today is loud,yes but it doesn't Pound like the older music does. the kicks on most songs before 2006 are louder than the bass lines of today's songs

 

[BrothaZay]

Early-mid 2000s

 

[Ashtrey]

G-Funk Era

 

[Wacky D]

the mid-80s takes this.

all this stuff yall yappin bout, the mid-80s excelled at most of it, all in one sitting.

an example was already listed and credited to another era.

those death row samples

when did we start giving eras credit for str8 samples?

give the mid-80s their beat back.

 

[mobbinfms]

Hands Down, Early-to-Mid 90s

 

[The Ruler 09]

Early to mid 90's probably for me too.

In my mind my time scale is around 92 - 97/8. That would encompass a lot of incredible production work to me, with Havoc, DJ Premier, Johnny J, Dr Dre, RZA and others.